Class on Demand: COLOR for DIGITAL ARTISTS

Description

Color for Digital Artists is a unique tutorial all about color that is specifically designed for digital artists. If you are a photographer, video editor, Photoshop artist, motion graphics artist, 3D animator, visual effects artist, or frankly, any kind of artist today working with pictures your job depends on working with digital images. In this tutorial you will learn what happens when color hits the computer.

This is not an art class. It does not teach how to create “looks”. You can find that in many places. This is also not a color science class. There is no math or complex equations to worry about. This is the knowledge of color that is hard to find because it is scattered all over. Steve Wright, a highly experienced feature film visual effects trainer that has trained over 600 artists knows what you need and pulled it all together in this one clear and easy to understand tutorial.

Here is what you will learn in the Color for Digital Artist tutorial:

The Basics and Key Terms

Color theory – both additive and subtractive

Color and the Computer – color channels, integer and floating point pixel values

The color wheel – changing hue by rotating through it

Complimentary colors – technical vs artistic

Key color terms – hue, saturation, brightness, contrast

Color attributes – tints, shades, warm vs cool

Contrast ratio – the scene, the eye, cameras, displays

Understanding Core Color Concepts

RGB vs HSV – which one is for computers and which for people?

HSV color space – how it works and what it looks like

Saturation – how it affects appearance and pixel values

HSV, HSL, HSB, HSI – What’s the difference?

Luminance – a pervasive concept in digital color

Luminance and Chrominance – the basis of image compression

Histograms – what they tell you about your pictures

Color correcting –the different operations and how it affects your pictures